Jerome Greene: 7 books
Indian War Veterans
Memories of Army Life and Campaigns in the West, 1864-1898
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2007
The decades-long military campaign for the American West is an endlessly fascinating topic, and award-winning author Jerome A. Greene adds substantially to this genre with Indian War Veterans: Memories of Army Life and Campaigns in the West, 1864-1898. Greene’s study presents the first comprehensive...
Finding Sand Creek
History, Archeology, and the 1864 Massacre Site
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
The 1864 Sand Creek Massacre is one of the most disturbing and controversial events in American history. While its historical significance is undisputed, the exact location of the massacre has been less clear. Because the site is sacred ground for Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, the question of its...
Nez Perce Summer, 1877
The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Nez Perce Summer, 1877 tells the story of a people's epic struggle to survive spiritually, culturally, and physically in the face of unrelenting military force. Written by one of the foremost experts in frontier military history and reviewed by members of the Nez Perce tribe, this definitive treatment...
American Carnage
Wounded Knee, 1890
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation to join other Lakotas seeking peace. Fearing that Big Foot’s band was headed instead to join “hostile” Lakotas, U.S. troops...
Guns Of Independence The Siege Of Yorktown 1781
The Siege of Yorktown, 1781
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
The siege of Yorktown in the fall of 1781 was the single most decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The campaign has all the drama any historian or student could want: the war's top generals and admirals pitted against one another; decisive naval engagements; cavalry fighting; siege warfare;...
Frontier Soldier
An Enlisted Man's Journal of the Sioux and Nez Perce Campaigns, 1877
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
"Not many enlisted men recorded their adventures in Indian
warfare. Still fewer actually kept a journal to lend immediacy to
their observations. Frontier Soldier is such a journal, by a literate
private who left his story of plains warfare in a chronicle rich in
detail. It is the richer for the...
The American Military Tradition
From Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
In The American Military Tradition historians John M. Carroll and Colin F. Baxter gather an esteemed group of military historians to explore the pivotal issues and themes in American warfare from the Colonial era to the present conflict in Iraq. From the reliance on militia and the Minutemen of the...